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[Bud Gibson]

I think it's going to take some time to get an MT that is less prone to
breakage on upgrade.  One thing that should really help is the move to test
driven development.  I would think that could really help with maintaining
the api.  In some sense, the test suite would define the api, and nothing
would make it into release that broke the tests.

I think a comprehensive test suite is some time away, hence my sense that
stability will take some time.

Bud

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Jay Allen <jay at endevver.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Bud Gibson <fpgibson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Let me speak to the issue of why I am not a plugin fan. Simply stated,
> they
> > are a maintenance headache. They're out of the core and they break on
> > upgrade. Byrne even noted this in a leaked email last August. I'm just
> now
> > diving into MT4.1 for a site upgrade, installing the recaptcha plug-in,
> and
> > thinking OMG, will this work when the MT4.1.5 upgrade surfaces?
>
> Luckily, much of that pain should be abating and eventually disappear
> now that us developers have full access to the source code after every
> single change to it by the core developers.  It used to be that
> developers only had a few weeks (if that) to not only learn all of the
> new front-end and API features but to quickly fix their plugins.  This
> was especially harmful for:
>
>    * The most prolific plugin writers (e.g. Arvind) who had many
> plugins to update,
>    * "One hit wonder" developers who wrote a single plugin and then
> drifted away from the community far enough to either not know or not
> care that there was a new MT version out that required updates to
> their plugin
>    * Or the worst case, plugin developers who fit into **both**
> categories by being extremely prolific in the MT 2.x and early 3.x
> days before completely dropping off the face of the Earth.  I won't
> name names because you probably know a few of these.
>
> So, it's now time to realize that your old biases, though probably
> well-founded, are now quite solidly out of date.  This is the
> beginning of the better times we've all been waiting for for so long.
>
> --
> Jay Allen
> Endevver Consulting
> 415-200-6985
>



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